Climate Media Training Day
Climate Media Training Day
How do we tell better climate stories, reach new audiences, and make climate communication more compelling, creative, and sustainable?
Join Youth Climate Collaborative, The Carmack Collective, and Let's Choose Love for our second annual NYCW Media Training! It’s a full day bringing together climate communicators, creators, campaigners, storytellers, and media practitioners to learn, experiment, share ideas, and build connections.
Throughout the day, we’ll explore the tools, strategies, and creative approaches that can help us communicate climate issues in ways that cut through, connect with people, and inspire action.
Expect a mix of practical training, creative showcases, hands-on deep dives, and candid conversations with people working at the forefront of climate media and storytelling.
Here is the tentative agenda:
9:30-10:00am: Welcome + Breakfast
10:00-10:10am: Introductions + Overview
10:15-11:00am: Communicating Climate Science with the IPCC by Qiyun Woo, Senior Communications Manager of Working Group 2 at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"
11:05am-12:00pm: Showcase - Leveraging Media and Storytelling for Successful Campaigns
15mins - Antoinette de Crombrugghe, Campaigner at Overstories
15mins - Fossil Free Media Brightside Campaign
15mins - Saad Amer, Founder at Justice Environment
12:05-12:50pm: LUNCH
12:55-1:15pm: "Talanoa for the Vanua: Climate Stories from Fiji — TV Documentary Collaboration with UNDP Pacific" by Natalie Chung, PhD Researcher in Nature-based Solutions at Princeton University and Founder of Princeton AI for Climate Network
1:15pm-1:35pm: "Creator Coalitions for Action on Ocean and Climate" by Mark Haver, Strategic Advisor at FutureSwell
1:40-2:20pm: "Elevating Community-based Storytelling" by Bryce Cracknell, Founder & Editor in Chief at The Margin, and Cameron Oglesby, Founder and Executive Director at the Environmental Justice Oral History Project
2:25-2:55pm: Carmack Productions: Climate Comedy
3:00-3:20pm: Youth Climate Collaborative Deep Dive - Pooja Tilvawala, Executive Director and Founder at Youth Climate Collaborative
3:25-4:10pm: Resourcing and Sustaining this Work - The Carmack Collective by Ricky Benavidez, Managing Director & Associate Producer, and Jessie Bluedorn, Executive Director & Executive Producer.
4:10-4:30pm: Mixer
4:30pm: Exit
*Attendees under the age of 18 are welcome to attend but must be accompanied by a responsible adult aged 18 or over for the duration of the event.
*Written consent for photography and videography involving attendees under 18 must be provided by a parent or legal guardian at the event welcome desk. If written consent is not provided, the attendee will not be included in any photographs or video recordings taken during the event. Consent may be withdrawn at any time by contacting Pooja Tilvawala at pooja@youthcc.org. If consent is withdrawn, we will stop using the photographs or video recordings taken in future promotional and marketing materials and will remove them from our websites and social media channels where reasonably possible. Please note that we may not be able to recall printed materials that have already been distributed or remove content that has been copied, shared, or republished by third parties (including media organisations or members of the public).
Thank you to The Carmack Collective, Let's Choose Love, and nomadworks for your support, and to all of our partners for their collaboration!